xvi, 347 pages : 26 cm

This volume contains original essays on Ramanujan and his work. It also includes survey articles in areas influenced by Ramanujan's mathematics. Most of the articles in the book are non-technical to make them accessible to the general reader

Includes bibliographical references

The four photographs of Ramanujan / Bruce C. Berndt -- The books studied by Ramanujan in India / Bruce C. Berndt and Robert A. Rankin -- The influence of Carr's synopsis on Ramanujan ; The notebooks of Srinivasa Ramanujan / Bruce C. Berndt -- A recently discovered letter giving Ramanujan's examination scores -- On Ramanujan / S. Chandrasekhar -- The Ramanujan family record / Robert A. Rankin -- Ramanujan as a patient / R.A. Rankin -- Ramanujan's illness / D.A.B. Young -- An incident in the life of S. Ramanujan, F.R.S.: converstions with G.H. Hardy, F.R.S. and J.E. Littlewood, F.R.S. and their sequel / S. Chandrasekhar -- S. Janaki Ammal (Mrs. Ramanujan) / Bruce C. Berndt -- Conversation "I didn't understand his work, but I knew his worth" / P. Nandy -- A short biography of S. Narayana Iyer / Bruce B. Berndt -- The distribution of primes ; Some theorems in summation / S. Narayana Aiyar -- Srinivasa Ramanujan / E.H. Neville -- University lectures in Madras

Ramanujan's manuscripts and notebooks ; Ramanujan's manuscripts and notebooks, II / R.A. Rankin -- An overview of Ramanujan's notebooks / Bruce C. Berndt -- An introduction to Ramanujan's "lost" notebook / George E. Andrews -- Ramanujan and pi / Jonathan M. Borwein and Peter B. Borwein -- Pi related developments since 1988 / Bruce C. Berndt -- Reflections around the Ramanujan centenary / Atle Selberg -- The problems submitted by Ramanujan to the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society / Bruce C. Berndt, Youn-Seo Choi, and Soon-Yi Kang -- A walk through Ramanujan's garden / Freeman J. Dyson -- Ramanujan and hypergeometric and basic hypergeometric series / R. Askey -- The final problem: an account of the mock Theta functions / G.N. Watson

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